Lesson Planning Form for Accessible Instruction Calvin College Education Program

Teacher
Date

Subject/ Topic/ Theme

America pre-English Colonies

Grade ________7_______

I. Objectives
How does this lesson connect to the unit plan?
It establishes what other countries were doing in America prior to the British creating colonies. So this lesson provides a little bit of background information.
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Learners will be able to:

Identify the three main countries, Spain, Netherlands and France that claimed land in North America prior and during
the British colonies
Locate the areas that these three countries claimed on a map
Define why the three countries settled America, what did they hope to gain? What were the economies of the
settlements? Who founded the settlements?
Pull out and record key information from a book and a video clip
Think critically about how the settlements of these three countries effected the Native Americans

physical
development

socioemotional

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Common Core standards (or GLCEs if not available in Common Core) addressed: 7-H1.4.1 Describe and use cultural
institutions to study an era and a region (political, economic, religion/belief, science/technology, written language, education,
family). : CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.2: determine the central idea or information of a primary or secondary source
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7: integrate visual information (maps) with other information in print and digital texts,
(Note: Write as many as needed. Indicate taxonomy levels and connections to applicable national or state standards. If an objective applies to particular learners
write the name(s) of the learner(s) to whom it applies.)
*remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create

II. Before you start

Identify prerequisite
knowledge and skills.

Students will have to know about the Native Americans (where a majority of them lived, and how they
lived), they will also have to know the locations of France, Spain and Netherlands in European
continent, know how to read and find information within text and video, take their own notes.
Pre-assessment (for learning): have the students use a KWL chart, have them fill in the boxes labeled What I
Know and What I want to know. Have them share to the class what some of the things that they already know
are and also what they want to learn.

Outline assessment
activities
(applicable to this lesson)

Formative (for learning): an exit quiz that contains a few multiple choice based on what the students learned
during the class period as well as having them complete a short answer question that is more critical thinking the
question will be the European countries that settled in North America benefited from the help of the Native
Americans because of trading, do you think that the Native Americans benefited from trading with the
Europeans? Why or why not?
Formative (as learning):

The students will also fill in the last box of the KWL chart which is What I learned and then they
will turn this into the teacher at the end of the class along with their exit exam
Summative (of learning): a final test at the end of the unit.
What barriers might this
lesson present?
What will it take
neurodevelopmentally,
experientially,
emotionally, etc., for your
students to do this lesson?

Provide Multiple Means of

Representation
Provide options for perceptionmaking information perceptible
Using reading from textbook,
verbal class discussion, short video
clip

Provide Multiple Means of Action

and Expression
Provide options for physical actionincrease options for interaction
Full class discussion, peer to peer
discussion/reading,.

Provide Multiple Means of

Engagement
Provide options for recruiting
interest- choice, relevance, value,
authenticity, minimize threats
The use of a video, provide an exit
question that makes this topic
relevant to present day America

Provide options for language,

mathematical expressions, and
symbols- clarify & connect
language

Provide options for expression and

communication- increase medium
of expression

Provide options for sustaining effort

and persistence- optimize
challenge, collaboration, masteryoriented feedback

The textbook itself defines

some of the bigger words within
the text

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writing down what they learned

on KWL and on the exit quiz

Group work in order to find in

the book the three key questions
provided by the teacher

Provide options for comprehensionactivate, apply & highlight

Materials-what materials
(books, handouts, etc) do
you need for this lesson
and are they ready to
use?

How will your classroom

be set up for this lesson?

Provide options for executive

functions- coordinate short & long
term goals, monitor progress, and
modify strategies

Provide options for self-regulationexpectations, personal skills and

strategies, self-assessment &
reflection

The exit quizzes short answer

question the European
Comparing the KWLs boxes of The KWL provides them with a
countries that settled in North
box saying what I want to
America benefited from the help What I know and What I
learned.
Along
with
comparing
learn and then their goal can be
of the Native Americans
that
to
the
exit
quiz.
finding those answers. The exit
because of trading, do you think
quiz can be helpful for selfthat the Native Americans
assessment.
benefited from trading with the
Europeans? Why or why not?
Students will use some
background knowledge of what
happens to the Native
Americans
Textbook, blank map of America, colored pencils,
video
(start at 5min 33 seconds and end at 6:55): cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E9WU9TGrec,
computer, projector, ELMO projector, notebook, pencil or pen,

Students will start the class period in their assigned desks and they will be facing the front of the
classroom in order to see the teacher and ELMO. When the students break into reading groups of two,
then they may pull desks together or sit in open space on the ground. They will be brought back to
their individual desks at the end of class so that they are able to see the projector and teacher again.

III. The Plan

Time
8:10

Components
Motivation
(opening/
introduction/
engagement)

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8:15

8:25

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Development
(the largest
component or
main body of
the lesson)

Describe teacher activities

AND
student activities
for each component of the lesson. Include important higher order thinking questions and/or
prompts.
Teacher will explain to the students that they will
Students will fill out the first two boxes (the What
be learning about the French, Spanish and Dutch
I know and what I want to know) of the KWL
settlements in America. Teacher will hand out the
KWL and will have the students fill out the first
two boxes (What I know and what I want to
know) based on their knowledge of French,
Spanish and Dutch settlements.
Teacher will put blank map of the North America
up on the ELMO and will give each student a blank Students will copy the teachers map that is up on
map as well. The teacher will show the students
the ELMO projector, they will use different colors
what part of North America France, Spain and
to outline each settlement.
Netherlands claimed and outline each with a
different color.
Teacher will assign groups of two and will tell the
Students will get into groups assigned by the
students what pages of the book they have to read
teacher. They will read the assigned pages and
(pg. 83 titled New France up to title Expansion
record the information that they find about the three
to the Mississippi and pg. 85 New Netherland
questions provided by the teacher.
up to pg. 86 Dutch Ways in North America)
Teacher will tell the students to look for and record
on a piece of paper: why did the French and Dutch
settle America? Who (persons name) established

the first Dutch and French settlement? What was

the settlements economy?
Teacher will gather the students back together and
as a class will go over if they found the correct
information.
Teacher will tell the students that they are going to
watch a short clip of a video describing the Spanish
settlement and that they need to look for the same
three questions that they were given for France and
Netherlands. Teacher will put on the video clip on
(start at 5min 33sec, end at 6min 55sec)
Teacher will go over the information from the
video in case they missed it. (the economy of the
Spanish settlement may be hard to pick out of the
video clip so the teacher may need to go over that
with the students)

8:35
8:40

8:45

8:45

Students will go back to their original desks and

they will raise their hand to answer one of the three
questions about the two settlements.
Students will watch and listen to the movie and
they will pick out the answers to the three
questions. After the movie the students will raise
their hands and answer one of the questions that
they found the answer to.

Teacher will tell the students to complete the What Students will complete the final box of the KWL
I learned box of the KWL chart. Then will hand
(the What I learned box) and then they will work
out the exit quiz. Exit quiz will contain a few
on their exit quiz. When they are done with the exit
multiple choice based on what they learned today
quiz they will turn it in to the teacher before
and also a short answer question. the European
leaving the classroom.
countries that settled in North America benefited
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from the help of the Native Americans because of
trading, do you think that the Native Americans
benefited from trading with the Europeans? Why or
why not?
Your reflection about the lesson, including evidence(s) of student learning and engagement, as well as ideas for improvement
for next time. (Write this after teaching the lesson, if you had a chance to teach it. If you did not teach this lesson, focus on the
process of preparing the lesson.)
Closure
(conclusion,
culmination,
wrap-up)

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